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“This is an important article (URL below). The US administration (Eric Holder?) will undoubtedly attempt to remand Homaidan al-Turki to the custody of the Saudi govt., due to Saudi diplomatic pressure. The Saudi King himself offered to personally meet Colorado law enforcement authorities inside Saudi Arabia, to negotiate for his transfer. These efforts must be resisted and the mechanism for doing so is illuminated here.”Janet L.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2296328/Colorado-corrections-chief-shot-dead-answered-door-bell–gunman-loose.html

The Colorado Corrections Department Chief Tom Clements has enough precedents to reject to transfer Homaidan al-Turki to Saudi Custody, for ongoing incarceration in Saudi Arabia, to wit:

1) SEVEN of our GITMO terror-detainees were earlier transferred to Saudi Arabia on the promissory understanding that they would remain under Saudi supervision and be “rehabilitated”. Instead, all seven emigrated to Yemen, where they resumed terror operations against the United States and other nations. It is notable that while Saudi Arabia is a ‘police state’, where a cockroach cannot operate without notice, somehow the world’s worst manage to get out under the radar screen, to operate in Yemen.

2) In 2006 Uthman Ghamdi was released from GITMO to Saudi custody. He emigrated to Yemen, to become a top aid to the late Anwar Awlaki.

3) In 2007 Said Ali al-Shihiri was released from GITMO to Saudi custody. He was officially designated as “rehabilitated” and released. He quickly emigrated to Yemen where he became the #2 leader of ‘AQ in Yemen’.

4) In January 2010 the Pentagon established a policy of refusing to transfer any more GITMO detainees to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. i.e. DOD policy officially acknowledges Saudi Arabia’s official role in promulgating terror.

Also, the Saudis undoubtedly resent the ‘Kuffir’ (non-believers, infidels) implementing justice on an Islamic believer. That is something instantly abhorrent to any Muslim. i.e. there is a basis in Islamic precepts that prohibits Kuffir from passing judgement on, and penalizing, a Muslim believer.

When I was in Saudi, Prince Mansour bin Saud al-Saud (a son of the late King Saud) informed me that the late King Fahad informed all the royal princes they “can do anything they want in foreign countries, except the United States.” He told me that if any Saudi royal misbehaves in the United States, he will lose millions / billions / govt. contracts / access to the King’s Majelis. That was the Saudi King’s policy for the princes, communicated in Majelis. Furthermore, if a prince cannot go to the King’s Majelis, he is shunned by all other princes who will refuse to interact with him, because if they do, they will also lose.

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A late education is better than no education at all, even for a president of the United States. The man who is a mighty legend in his own mind is even showing a little humility. Barack Obama, who usually finds someone else – usually George W. – to blame for every little thing that goes awry, finally admitted this week in Israel that even a synthetic messiah can make mistakes.

“I hope I’m a better president now than when I first came into office,” he told reporters at one stop early in his trip. “I’m absolutely sure that there are a host of things that I could have done that would have been more deft and, you know, would have created better optics.”

Now if he’ll only turn from an obsession with “better optics” to the serious statecraft at hand, we can all breathe a little easier. Not a lot, but a little.

There’s no more crucial place to get a late education than in the Middle East, where graduate schools abound in every nook in the brambles and crannies in the ancient rocks. This is one place where making crucial and momentous decisions on the fly risks not only disasters, but invites catastrophes. This is no place for “a man without a foreign policy,” as one commentator remarked, a man with only naïve aspirations who operates on the notion that a chaotic and perilous world can be changed by “the transformative power of a good speech, but no clear path to achieve anything.”

Perhaps the president burned a little midnight oil just in time. Vali Nasr, who was not so long ago a senior insider at the Obama White House, describes in his forthcoming book, “The Dispensable Nation,” how decisions have sometimes been made. On Afghanistan, for example, he says Obama policy-makers were determined not to make long-reaching strategic decisions but to satisfy shifting public opinion. These policy makers, according to an advance reading of Mr. Nasr’s book, comprised “a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers whose turf was strictly politics.”

Campaign politics Chicago style, where every problem can be solved with a favor or an expertly placed shiv, clearly doesn’t work in the Middle East. President Obama arrived in Jerusalem just when the strategic interests of the United States and the strategic concerns of Israel seemed to be on a collision course. The president has been concerned with spreading clichés and bromides, the prime minister with survival. The photographs of Mr. Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unarmed and smiling, were staged to show everyone that despite their history of hostile relations, they could, too, get along without taking or giving a punch.

Another Tack: Bad Jews = Good story It was a PR windfall for Hamas when 11-months-old-Omar Misharawi was killed by a rocket that hit his family’s home on November 14, 2012 – at the very outset of Operation Pillar of Defense. During that confrontation, thousands of Hamas missiles and mortars rained on Israel. The long-range ones […]